Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 5

Some African termite mounds are several metres high, built by insects only a few millimetres long from soil, spit and droppings, with chimneys and tunnels for air.

Who acts: African termite mounds, several metres · What happens: be, build · To what, where: several metres, few millimetres, soil

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (African termite mounds, several metres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 mounds	det
2	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mounds	amod
3	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mounds	compound
4	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 metres	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 metres	cop
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metres	amod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metres	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 built	punct
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 metres	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 insects	case
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 built	obl:agent
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 millimetres	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 millimetres	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 millimetres	amod
16	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 built	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 millimetres	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 soil	case
19	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spit	punct
21	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 soil	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 droppings	cc
23	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spit	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chimneys	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 chimneys	case
26	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 built	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tunnels	cc
28	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 chimneys	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 air	case
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chimneys	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 metres	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	some African termite mounds	several metres					tree rules
2	build	participle	several metres not said here	a few millimetres		soil and spit and droppings		with chimneys for air and tunnels	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from soil=Material

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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